Ancient Irish Histories Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: about 122 yeeres) the name of Scots a was not knowne unto the Romans. In short time after the retinue of Gathelus searched the North-east and North-west Hands, and entred the Land which now is called Scotland, so also called (as the Scotish will have it) of Scota. b But many grave writers have stumbled at the certainty of this story, yet I finde for certaine, that Ireland was called Scotia motor, and the other Scotia minor, and oftentimes confusedly the one taken for the other, and the words to be of no great antiquity. Capgrave in the life of Saint Columbanus c saith; Ireland of old was called Scotland, from whence the Scottish nation inhabiting' Albania (next vnto great Britaine) now called Scotland tooke their originall. Fiacrius an Her mite being asked of a Bishop in France what hee was, among other things answered; Ireland the Hand of Scots is the native soile of mee and my parents. It also ap- peareth by Orosins, Claudian, Isidore, Hubaldus, Beda, the English Legend, the Martyrologe secumdetn usum Sarum, Marianus, lonas in vita Sancti Colum- bani, Aimoinus, Ccesarius, r. that Ireland and Scotland were usually taken one for the other. But before I goe any further, I thinke it not amisseto say somwhat to this word Scotus or Scottus, the which Hector Boetius carrieth away as derived of Scota, and as thing granted. There came to this Countrey of Ireland at three severall times, before Gathelus, great Commanders of Scythia (as I have said before) of the posterity of laphet, planted themselues, divided the land with great troubles, and when they were at the worst, alwayes they left a remnant of their nation behinde them. Beda every where calleth them not Scotos, but Scottos; so that I finde in the word a double alteration, y turned into o, and th into tt. Also in low Germa...